Financial Times: Nokia mulling revenue split with carriers for Windows Phone 8

The Financial Times has reported that Nokia is in "exploratory" talks with several European carriers to share revenue for its upcoming Windows Phone 8 handsets in exchange for dedicated support. This would be a shift from its normal modus operandi, which is to sell as many phones as it can across all carriers at once, in favor of an approach which resembles Apple's deal with AT&T for the iPhone in 2007. The Finnish company could be hoping to create the same level of excitement for its WP8 phone that Cupertino did back then -- and may also be trying to offer a more profitable carrier alternative to Apple and Samsung, who use their dominance to grab the lion's share of handset revenue. While operators like France Telecom (Orange) and Deutsche Telekom are said to be involved, all parties have declined to comment. So, take this for what it is -- just a rumor at the moment -- but based on deals it made in the US with AT&T and the Lumia 900, it wouldn't be a shocker for Nokia to at least consider it.

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My Little Clan - Long Distance Relationships

Blog Entries Distance is not for the fearful, it is for the BOLD!? It's for those who are willing to spend alot of time alone? in exchange for a little time with the one they LOVE. It's for those? knowing a GOOD thing when they see it, even they don't see it NEARLY enough. ((Okay this is what a good friend of mine just told me. What she's going through, this "long distance relationship" with this guy! She pretty messed up about it! I'm like younger then her. She's 19 :/ I don't what to say! Her Love is on the other Side of the Continent?nent . Were in the US. And the guy is somewhere in Asia! I'm confused! This is my first time dealing with this. ))? RSS

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Man accidentally eats steel bristle during BBQ

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) ? A Tacoma man needed emergency surgery after accidentally eating a steel bristle from a grill brush he used during a barbeque.

KING 5 reports that (http://is.gd/J7Tivj ) Adam Wojtanowicz (woh-TAN-oh-witz) went to the hospital Sunday complaining of abdominal pain that wouldn't go away despite his taking medication. Doctors found a metal bristle on a CT scan and performed surgery to get it out.

Wojtanowicz says he recently hosted a cookout, and he thinks a steel bristle from his grill brush fell onto his steak. He says he apparently swallowed the metal without realizing it.

The Centers for Disease Control says it knows of at least six people who have recently suffered similar, potentially fatal, injuries. It doesn't blame a particular brand or type of brush.

Wojtanowicz is expected to recover.

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Huawei Ascend P1 review

Huawei isn?t a well known brand when it comes to the U.S. smartphone market. The Chinese manufacturer is looking to change that, however, and plans to push forward with more advertising in the U.S. and a slew of new smartphones. The Ascend P1 was announced at this year?s Consumer Electronics show in January, and over the past few months it?has been slowly rolling out in various markets. Huawei is betting big on its Android-powered smartphones, but in a world of Samsung Galaxy S IIIs and HTC One Xs, is the company?s latest effort enough to attract consumers and increase its share of the extremely competitive smartphone market? Read on to find out.

Design

The Ascend P1 is just 7.7 millimeters thick, making it one of the thinnest smartphones on the market, and it weighs a mere 110 grams. The handset doesn?t look bad, although I would have preferred rounded corners. And even though the amount of plastic the P1 employs may resemble a Samsung device, the phone feels great in your hand and not at all flimsy.

On the bottom resides three capacitive buttons; menu, home and back. For some reason, Huawei thought it was a good idea to keep the menu button rather than a recent applications button, as is the case with other Ice Cream Sandwich phones. To view recent apps, you must instead hold the home button.

The left side of the phone is home to the volume up and volume down buttons while the right side holds a power button and a micro SD slot. I found the buttons rather annoying and unresponsive, requiring a fair amount of pressure to get presses to register.

Huawei also decided to follow in the footsteps of other manufacturers and included a non-removable 1,670 mAh battery, which forces the SIM card slot to be located on the top of the device next to the microUSB port and 3.5-millimeter headphone jack.

Despite the non-removable battery, the smartphone easily lasted a day with moderate use.

Hardware

Huawei?s smartphone features a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED display with qHD resolution and a pixel density of 256 pixels-per-inch. The screen is bright and sharp, although its PenTile matrix clearly stands out when compared to other handsets. The low resolution will also disappoint some potential buyers considering most high-end phones now feature 720p HD displays.

While the Ascend P1 doesn?t contain the quad-core processor found in the Ascend D Quad, nor does it have a speedy Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 chipset. The smartphone is equipped with 1GB of RAM and a fully capable dual-core TI OMAP 4460 CPU clocked at 1.5GHz, the same processor found in the Galaxy Nexus.

The P1 is a global power house and is equipped with a pentaband 3G radio (850 / 900 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100) and a quad-band GSM radio (850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900) that will make frequent travelers happy.

Camera

The smartphone features an 8-megapixel rear camera with a dual-LED flash that is capable of capturing 1080p video. The camera application supports HDR, Panorama, Low light, Smile Shot and Group camera modes, and comes preloaded with numerous ?hipster? filters that allow users to customize their photos.

Images taken with the P1 are at best marginally above average for an Android smartphone. The camera cannot compete with HTC?s One X or Samsung?s Galaxy S III, although I found it to capture higher quality photos than the Galaxy Nexus and DROID RAZR MAXX. When compared with?Apple?s iPhone 4S, which arguably contains one of the best smartphone cameras, the P1?s images, while sharp, seemed over-saturated and were unable to capture colors accurately.

As you can see from the example above, images taken with Hauwei?s smartphone have somewhat of a blue tint. The camera cannot compete with high-end devices, although as a mid-range model it could lead the pack.

One major annoyance I found while taking photos with the device was the obnoxiously loud sound the camera makes as it attempts to focus, which is impossible to silence.

Software

The Ascend P1 shines when it comes to software and I praise?Huawei on its implementation of the Android operating system. It is no secret that I dread?manufacturer?skins, and Huawei seems to be the only?manufacturer that gets it. The P1 ships with a near stock version of Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich. Huawei?has done something no other smartphone vendor has done, however, and given users the option to switch to a skinned user interface.

Tapping the menu button reveals a ?3D Home? option, which quickly skins the device with Huawei?s custom interface. The UI is nothing special and features the usual 3D animations, but the fact that Huawei gives users the option to easily switch back to stock Android is fantastic.

The Chinese?manufacturer added a few?enhancements?to Android?s stock experience, such as a beautiful weather widget and quick shortcuts to Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, Data Toggle and Auto-Rotation in the phone?s?notification?bar. All in all, the added features are welcomed.

Conclusion

The?Huawei?Ascend P1 is an interesting smartphone. By no means is it a high-end device, and I don?t think Huawei intends it to be, but for the right price the handset could be a winner.

The P1?s quick and responsive hardware, along with a near stock Android experience and above average camera performance, sets the device above some of its competition. While it is hard to recommend to power users, especially with newer and more powerful devices always on the horizon, the handset could be appealing to more frugal and less tech-savvy consumers.

If marketed well, priced competitively and aimed at the right audience, Huawei could finally make a splash in the U.S. smartphone market with the Ascend P1.

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Angola silencing protests ahead of August vote: HRW

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Didn't send your kid to war? Maybe you can send $$

WASHINGTON (AP) ? If you have military-age children who have not served in this decade's wars, then you owe a debt ? meaning money ? to those who did. That's the premise of a new fundraising effort by three wealthy American families who want to help U.S. veterans of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Every non-military family should give something, they said. The affluent should give large sums. No one should think of it as charity, but rather a moral obligation, an alternative way to serve, perhaps the price of being spared the anxiety that comes with having a loved one in a war zone.

"We have three able-bodied, wonderful, wonderful children, all of whom are devoted to doing very, very good things around social justice; and we could not be more proud of them," said Philip Green, a local businessman who devised the fundraising idea. "We're also delighted that none of them had to serve in Iraq or Afghanistan."

Green says he and his wife came to look at that as unfair: "I realized that there were parents just like me down the street, down the block ... who did not have that luxury" and were suffering sleepless nights and anxiety, "which I was able to avoid."

Green, president of health care consultancy PDG Consulting, and his wife Dr. Elizabeth Cobbs, head of geriatrics at Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Washington, teamed with two other couples to start the fundraising. Together, they donated a total of $1.1 million. Contributing with Green and Cobbs were Glenn Garland, head of Texas-based CLEAResult energy consultancy, and his wife, Laurie, and Jim Stimmel, CLEAResult's executive vice president, and his wife, Patty.

They hope to raise $30 million for five organizations they say are among the best at providing medical, financial and other help to veterans, active duty troops and their families. With the Fourth of July celebration approaching, they held a news conference with one of the five organizations, the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA).

"Millions of Americans and their families have sacrificed so much in the conflicts and they have such needs," Stimmel said. "By contrast, so many affluent Americans have not made a commensurate sacrifice; and they should."

The issue of unequal national sacrifice has been a recurring theme during current and past conflicts and it always touches on at least two questions: Who serves in America and who doesn't? What's the responsibility of those who don't?

Most people aren't interested in joining the military. A recent Pentagon survey shows only 18 percent of American youths say they'll definitely or probably join, very low compared to decades ago. The culture surrounding service was transformed in part by the end of conscription and mandatory service.

"Clearly, young people would prefer to be doing other things," said Beth Asch, a senior economist at RAND Corporation who specializes in defense manpower issues.

The military also doesn't want most Americans. It says 75 percent of the target recruit-age population of 17- to 24-year-olds are unqualified due to health problems (mostly related to obesity), drug or alcohol histories, or too little education (no high school diploma).

In the end, the Pentagon says it has assembled an armed force pretty much mirroring the society it defends. That is, major racial and ethnic groups make up about the same percentage of the military as they do the society at large. The same goes for income, with one exception, Asch says: "The 20 percent (of society) with the lowest income are the least likely to serve." They're generally unqualified due to lower education and aptitude ratings. Recruits from neighborhoods where the average household income is over $100,000 also are rare, making up roughly 3 percent of the total, studies have shown.

Asch believes that not requiring all qualified people to serve makes the system inherently unfair. That today's force is all-volunteer takes some of the edge off that but doesn't speak to inequity.

The families starting the new fundraising noted their lack of service.

Stimmel and Green didn't go to Vietnam; their sons and daughters didn't join the military during the latest conflicts. Green was disqualified during Vietnam because of health issues. Stimmel never was called because he drew a high number in that era's draft lottery. Garland watched older friends go and come home unappreciated and says he now has enormous appreciation for military families.

"We feel that supporting our troops is more than sticking a yellow sticker on the back of your car that says 'Support the Troops,'" Stimmel said.

"Patty and I are challenging at least 1,000 affluent families out there to contribute 1 percent of their net worth to do their part," he said.

Every successful business person in America "has enjoyed that success because of the sacrifice of someone else's sons and daughters" in uniform, Garland said. The argument echoes a concern repeated often over the decade: War efforts have fallen on the shoulders of the few, while the lives of the many went largely unencumbered. Or as some troops have been fond of saying: "We went to war, America went to the mall."

But it's also true that there's widespread support shown today's troops and vets, especially compared with the vitriol heaped on those in uniform during Vietnam. Thousands of support groups now have sprung up around the nation ? one study estimates there are some 40,000. They provide welcoming parties as troops arrive home at airports, free housing, telephone cards, children's camps, employment help, airline miles, "nights out" for wives caring for their wounded husbands, counseling, cash and more.

Some long-established organizations have added new missions. The United Service Organization (USO), known for decades for sending entertainers to lighten the hearts of troops on the battlefield, focuses more now on care for the wounded. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce sponsors job fairs.

What it all amounts to in giving and spending is not known.

Officials and military families fear that as more troops arrive home from the ongoing drawdown in Afghanistan, Americans will lose interest or consider the problem solved.

"The veteran space (in giving) is kind of similar to the AIDS space 35 years ago," said Paul Rieckhoff, a former infantryman who served in Iraq and founded the IAVA. "You have an explosion of public health need that's impacting a small percentage of the population that most Americans don't feel."

"And in many ways the country kind of thought that AIDS was just a problem for the gay community in the same way many Americans think that veterans (are) just a problem for the military community," he said.

Many also assume the government will handle it ? something experts in the field say isn't possible as needs spiral in a struggling economy.

Rieckhoff said there's a group of donors dedicated to veteran issues, but few who give six- and seven-figure sums. The new fundraising aims not only to attract large donations, but recast the giving as a moral obligation rather than an option.

"It's not a question of 'Is there money out there'," Green said. "And it's not a question of whether people should give the money. It's only a question of finding them and convincing them to give it."

Associated Press

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How to restore your address book after Facebook messed it up

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Recently, Facebook changed everyone's email to an @facebook.com address. Even if you fixed the problem, you may find that Facebook changed all of the contacts in your phone, too. Here's how to fix it.

A lot of us sync our Facebook accounts with our address books on our smartphones, so we always have up-to-date phone numbers, email addresses, and pictures for all of our friends. However, with Facebook changing everyone's email to @facebook.com last week, blogger Rachel Luxemburg (and a lot of other people) found that those changes were synced down to their phone?meaning they don't have any of their friends' actual email addresses anymore. Just the facebook.com ones.

None of us at Lifehacker have noticed this problem, but we do have a few ideas about how to fix it. In fact, this will fix any similar problem you have where your contacts get messed up. Here's what you need to do.

Step one: Restore your contacts to a previous state
Some services?particularly Google?regularly back up your contacts so if something goes wrong, you can restore them. And, since nearly all Android users sync their contacts with Google?as well as many iPhone users?this is a good way to fix the contacts on your phone. To do so, just follow these instructions:

1. Before you do anything else, go to your phone and turn off Facebook syncing for your contact list. On Android, this is in the Facebook app under Settings > Sync Contacts. Just set it to "Don't Sync". On the iPhone, go to the Facebook app, click the menu button, scroll down to "Friends", then hit the share button in the upper right-hand corner. Tap "Sync Contacts" and turn syncing off. Note that depending on your platform, you may have a "Remove Facebook Data" button on the contact syncing screen?tapping this will also turn off syncing.
2. Go to your Gmail inbox, and click on the "Gmail" label under the Google logo. Go to Contacts. Remember, this trick only works if you were syncing your phone with your Google contacts.
3. Click the "More" button and go to "Restore Contacts". We don't know exactly when the Facebook change happened, but you'll probably want to set it to restore your contacts from a day before June 22, 2012, so set it to whatever you need to go back that far.
4. Click the Restore button. When it finishes, you should hopefully find that all of your contacts' correct email addresses have been restored! As long as you don't sync with Facebook again, they should stay that way.

If you don't sync your contacts with Google, check to see if your desktop address book has any alternatives. For example, if you're on a Mac and you back it up with Time Machine, you can just open up Address Book, invoke Time Machine from the menu bar, then restore it to a date before the Facebook ridiculousness happened. Then when you re-sync your iPhone, you should be good to go. Check your address book app's documentation for more info on whether it has an automatic backup feature.

Step two: Remind your friends to change their Facebook profile
If you can't restore your address book?or if you still want to be able to sync your Facebook?the only thing you can do is get all your friends to change their Facebook profile back to the way it was. That way, Facebook will sync their correct email address back to your phone. We've shown you how to do this before, so if you haven't already, spread the word to all your friends and family so they don't run into problems later on.

We couldn't test these instructions ourselves, because none of us have experienced the issue, but this should help you get your contacts back to the way they were (or at least closer). If you'ved this issue, let us know how these instructions work for you in the comments below.

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